Chapter 186 (1/2)

Chapter 186: Castle Defense

Translator: ies of my former world, fortresses and castle walls were considered the penultimate defenses of their tiy, they fell into disfavor and beca s, long-distance artillery, large-scale weapons of mass destruction, and iron tanks that could forcefully break through walls all caused these immovable barriers to becoend, which had been so significant in wars of past, were opened to the public as scenic tourist spots in a relatively e, and with the ey and species, the old e Even the strongest fortresses will beco more than scenic locations in the end”

I had always believed that Even if the developy caused many differences between this world andweapons like tanks and air boh-ranked air cavalry served a sinore castle walls and lob destructive weapons, and with the progress of the engineers’ technology in this world, a ical mechanical monstrosity was possible already—since I had already based several ical mechanical monstrosities on the weapons from my previous world As for weapons of ic spells?

Even though few es could use forbidden spells, and the ones that dared to use theic it didn’t seeic—that could affect even wars—to becoical weapons on ideas frombiological viruses, sli aerial fortresses of destruction, concealed biological poison gas weapons…

Cough, as a believer in peace, let’s just seal those obviously anti-hueddon Now back to the ainst the norm of this world

“In the future, ill enter a new generation where castle walls are irrelevant”

That hy I took an entirely divergent path frodoh-defense fortresses No round of the past or in the East Mist Coly abandoned the systey to build Instead, I spent ies, soldier types, and so on for practical combat

“Defensive battles with solid castle walls as the foundation e swept away in history during this Holy War”

But the tie wasn’t now

Fortresses and castles seemed to be passive defensive structures, but in the era of limited weaponry, they were critically i the cavalry attacks of noainst the beasts that would hunt prey in the darkness of the night, fortresses and castles were irreplaceable tactical centers

Defending the castle, and attacking a castle This was the standard of countless battles Not only were they obstacles in real life, but they were alsoin the castle would definitely feel safe as they looked at the tall castle walls that offered theun to change, castle walls weren’t entirely outdated yet Besides, hue, as most people still believed that the castle wall’s destruction meant the loss of the battle

Currently, the Red Maple defense line was being held entirely by the humans’ morale If their morale suffered a heavy blow…

“It’s over! There’s no hope any to die!”

The person as shouting out in such despair was no coward It was coeneral who had just killed dozens of beastmen in close combat, and he hadn’t even had time to treat his injuries yet But his shouts were just like that of a useless deserting soldier who didn’t want to become cannon fodder

The castle walls weren’t entirely destroyed by the earthquake, but nue cracks in it allowed the beastmen to enter as they pleased to catch and hunt the huless

“The castle walls are destroyed” is equal to “the battle is lost”—this was an iron eneral’s mind, and the subsequentin despair

There were many warriors similar to him Even the most resolute of warriors instantly felt that the battle was already lost

Battle out in the open against the beaste? Each individual huth already, and now they were also suppressed in terms of morale This seemed suicidal

Never underesti-lived Gods Emordilorcan, who didn’t seem to be much of a thinker, was actually a sly one Even as a participant in the Holy War, he had not only paid attention to everything that was occurring without directly intervening, but he also had done his best to understand the combat situation

That hy he had viciously attacked the hunificant weak spot in a critical time when he was destined to die He knew that the fall of Red Maple Castle would cause the e by far

If Red Maple Castle fell, then there would be nothing else blocking the beastmen on the open fields, and it would definitely topple the balance of power between the two sides The entire human allied army would be soblled with continuous defeats, proceeding with the beast Antuen This would e

“Hurry up and run, the beast!”

“I can’t stand it, we’ve stood here and fought them to this step already!”

Luckily, not everyone had abandoned hope Perhaps a certain princess’s bravery seeave many people headaches, but her personality of never surrendering until the very end was still quite popular

The flag of the Mist had yet to fall, and the People of the Mist had experienced being pushed to the brink countless tihters of their cities couldn’t scare them, then how could a simple castle wall’s collapse scare them?

“Abandon the outer castle walls; everyone retreat to the inner city The injured should go first, and whoever can still stand—block those bastards for ry voice, which still sounded quite young, sounded out fro the warriors to wake up from their stupors and transain

“We’ve already endured countless bloodbaths; now’s not the tiive up!”

They instantly abandoned the outer castle walls that were about to collapse Most of the residents were in the inner city to begin with, and the most number of people that needed to be transferred were the injured As for the defending soldiers below the collapsed castle walls, they had no spare tiht now to clean up the mess of stone shards

The her the importance of an ace card

Finally, the People of the Mist used their last trueins was activated, and a silver holy light instantly covered the entire city As the beastuilty of the crime of invasion, all the beastmen immediately felt a restriction to their freedo irons, weapon confiscations, and h, before Wumianzhe became the Guardian God of the Northlands, the Church of Law had no reason to interfere in this battle The members of the Church of Law in Red Maple Castle consisted only of a few of Reyne’s co their powers

Yet even the effect of just restraining the eneh At a time like this, when every second was crucial, every minute that the beastmen were stalled would help more soldiers retreat to the inner city, where additional warriors were constructing new defensive structures

“Notify the Borealis to attack with full firepoe need aerial support… Overload the Train King, and give these daer, Reyne showed her true leadershi+p abilities She didn’t need a vast a as she could remain calm and think of ideas to deal with the situation, it would be enough to reassure everyone

The chaos outside the western castle door was pacified under Reyne’s leadershi+p As everyone watched regretfully, the overloaded Train King was tossed down the castle wall

Boom!

Yet another mushroom cloud rose up on the battlefield

The violent explosion sent even the entire castle door flying and vaporized those beasth it The massive hole could even be used as a makeshi+ftairshi+ps to reconstruct new defensive structures in the inner city They were now at a distance fro castle walls

Finally, the castle walls collapsed entirely, crushi+ng a significant number of beast the beastazed at the pile of rubble

“da to le painfully in the River Styx… Wait, what did I just say? What is the River Styx?”